Just to give you a glimpse, here is what a typical workday at the office looks like time wise:
7am - Go to work
8:30am - 8:45am - Language Team Swahili Devotion
8:45am - 10:30am - Work
10:30am - 11:00am - Chai (tea) break
11:00am - 1:00pm - Work
1:00pm - 2:00pm - Lunch
2:00pm - 4:00pm - Work
4:00pm - Head home!

Richard and I pulled out of Oilcom a few minutes past dawn and after topping off with diesel.  The 2-hour ride to Makambako was uneventful although we were able to listen to two John Piper sermons using my media player.  Our stop in Makambako was necessary to pick up Mchungaji (pastor) Mbogela.  His home was [...]

To finish up on what I’m currently doing, this is the fourth project ‘in the works’.  I’m doing hardly any work with it right now and you’ll understand as I explain what it is.
Just as we arrived in Mbeya back at the end of April, I got an e-mail from our team leaders.  It was [...]

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart.
~ Hebrews 4:12
3 - Scripture in audio form for the Sangu people
Like I said in [...]

2 - Hymns in the Kinga mother tongue: there’s an mzee (old man) who lives in the hills between here and Njombe.  He is one of the Kinga people and over his lifetime, he’s come to learn over 40 hymns by heart in his mother tongue.  Considering the value Tanzanians place on singing, especially in [...]

Yes, I deserve to be fined for blog neglect.  After all, it is the work I’m doing that brought us to Tanzania!  Time to get y’all out of the dark and let you know what’s going on.
I’ll start out by showing you a (not so very attractive) map of the Mbeya area languages with whom [...]

Wondering how working is going for me?  Challenging so far just because everything is so new… everything… well, except my gadgets and gizmos.  I’m still very familiar with them.

So, what am I doing today?  Well, all of my audio equipment hasn’t been tested in nearly a year and before I begin planning any recording project, [...]